Fostering data science and statistics education in Africa via online team-based learning
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52041/iase2023.405Abstract
Many African students are not usually exposed to the analytical experience with data and computing skills they need to be successful in the workplace after graduation. Also, students often have limited exposure to team-based data science and the principles and tools that are encountered outside of school. In this paper, we describe the ADA Global Academy-Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (AGA-LISA) program, a LISA 2020 Global Network data science development project in which teams of graduate students are mentored online by a local non-profit organization on various collaborative data-focused projects. To help the students develop and improve confidence in their technical and non-technical data science skills, the project promoted a team-based approach to data science. Evidence from the project evaluation survey is presented to document the degree to which the project was successful in engaging students in team-based data science, and how the project impacted their technical and non-technical skills.References
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